In Re Marriage of Rogers

Respondent, Robert Rogers (husband), appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Du Page County dissolving his marriage with petitioner, Mary Ann Rogers (wife). No issue has been raised concerning the dissolution of marriage itself. Instead the husband challenges the distribution of the parties’ property, the award of maintenance, and the payment of attorney’s fees.

The wife filed a complaint for divorce in 1976. An amended petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in 1977. The parties were married in 1956 and therefore had been married approximately 21% years at the time of the…